Solo tabletop RPGs are having a moment, and UK publisher Modiphius has just dropped one that hits a sweet spot. Fallout: Wasteland Wanderer is a 256-page royal-sized hardcover for £40 that lets one player roam the irradiated post-war setting without rounding up a group or convincing a mate to GM.
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Start organising for freeYou build an original vault dweller and design your own vault, then strike out into a procedurally-generated wasteland using random oracle tables to spawn quests, scenarios, encounters and obstacles. The play loop breaks into four stages: Travel, Encounter, Action and Journaling. You roll d20s to determine what is out there, what happens when you find it, and what you do next, recording the whole expedition on your Pip-Boy as you go. It is the kind of structured improvisation that makes solo play work.
The game is adapted from Modiphius' existing Fallout: The Roleplaying Game, which uses the publisher's 2d20 system. That means existing Fallout RPG groups can crib oracle tables for their own GM-led campaigns, and solo players can graduate to the full game later if they want company. PDF buyers get the book immediately, with the full-colour hardcover shipping from late April through Modiphius' own webshop and select tabletop retailers.
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Set up your group for freeModiphius is a quietly impressive UK operation, holding the licences for Fallout, Star Trek Adventures, Dune and Conan among others, and putting out consistently sharp production work from their London base. For the UK Fallout fan looking for something to do with the recent surge of wasteland nostalgia, this is an easy recommendation.
Sources: Modiphius | Tabletop Sentinel | GamesRadar
